[meta-freescale] Please review the proposal of FSL Yocto layers reorg

[McClintock Matthew-B29882]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Otavio Salvador
<otavio at ossystems.com.br> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 5:57 PM, McClintock Matthew-B29882
> <B29882 at freescale.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Bob Cochran <yocto at mindchasers.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> The FSL Yocto layers reorg proposal is attached, can you please take a
>>>> look? Any comment and suggestion is welcome and appreciated.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks Zhenhua.  I have a few questions and comments about your slides.
>>>
>>> *** Slide 2: "Move all FSL specific layers to totally open source, or as
>>> much as possible"
>>>
>>> I'm all for this.  Will this include your PowerPC Linux Tree?  I didn't see
>>> mention of this in your slides.  This can be found today on your public git,
>>> but it hasn't been updated in months.
>>>
>>> I assume there's lots of kernel activity (as can be witnessed on the
>>> linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org list), so I'm assuming an internal Linux tree
>>> is being patched often.  It would be great to be able to see your Linux tree
>>> patched as issues are being discussed & resolved on yocto & ozlabs mail
>>> lists.
>>
>> We work on the upstream tree and also release an SDK kernel tree
>> that's fully tested. The layers tend to use the latter since it
>> supports all features. Nothing stopping users from adding a version
>> using the upstream tree.
>
> And from now on, what are the plans?

Same using SDK kernel release, I don't think the kernel team will ever
have everything upstreamed for an SDK release and supporting all
feature and bug fixes. Besides we will pick a kernel and test and fix
it so it will always fall out of sync. (e.g. latest kernel release - 1
release + fixes)

>
>>> **** Slide 3: "FSL Layers maintained in git.am.freescale.net,
>>> gitfrescale.com, and git.yoctoproject.org"
>>>
>>> Is your goal to have these layers in sync?  Today, I can find a meta-fsl-ppc
>>> layer on yoctoproject and at git.freescale.com.  However, they are not in
>>> sync, and I have no idea why one is patched and one isn't.
>>
>> They are somewhat in sync. The ones on git.freescale.com are still
>> denzil based for the last SDK release. Ones on git.yoctoproject.org
>> are newer and include danny and master branches as well.
>
> And what are the plans regarding the SDK?

These should be much closer to the same going forward (ideally
anyways) if not identically esp. for the layers we control, however we
can't always get all fixes in the oe-core/poky for an SDK release. But
a lot of times we can get them into the branch for that release and
eventually a point release.

-M